This Is How Journalism Works

Last Monday’s headline was the funniest I’ve seen round these parts. It beats the usual fare of MURDER SWAN IN BANK RAM RAID – PICTURES or whatever it was today. I couldn’t possibly imagine the journalistic politics that went into making this the headline appear on every standy-uppy board outside a shop so I had to imagine the simplest way it might work (that’s how reasoning works, yes?). It was so good I had to steal a few of their banners from the standy-uppy coards for various living rooms I knew they’d improve.

It got better though. The next day,

which I thought was a bit of a cop out, as it were. But then actually, they’d managed to put the same shaming headline up two days straight whilst being ever so obliging, sir.